Day 4: Don't be afraid of commitment: Setting goals and next steps for your writing
Saturday, December 5, 2009
The questions that will guide the agenda for this day include: How do/can you focus your research agenda?
What are your specific research and writing goals?
What are specific next steps you can take when you return from the conference?
What specific changes are you going to make to support your research and writing?
What do you envision as your support system?
Write or Die Having trouble writing? This site puts the "prod" in productivity.
From the website: Writing is an important issue in the UK today. While children’s and young people’s writing standards steadily improved until 2006, levels have not increased in recent years. Writing is much more than just an educational issue – it is an essential skill that allows people to participate fully in today’s society and to contribute to the economy. Relatively little is known about young people’s views about writing in the UK. The key objectives of this survey were therefore: to explore how much young people enjoy writing, what type of writing they engage in, how good at writing they think they are, what they think about writing and what the role of technology is in young people's writing.
This report outlines the findings from 3001 pupils aged 9-16 from England and Scotland, who completed an online survey in May 2009. It explores gender and age differences, and examines the link between socio-economic background (in terms of free school meals) and writing. Furthermore, it explores young people's writing with respect to mobile phone ownership, having a blog and having a profile on a social networking site. It concludes with practical and policy implications.
Day 4: Don't be afraid of commitment: Setting goals and next steps for your writing
Saturday, December 5, 2009
The questions that will guide the agenda for this day include:
How do/can you focus your research agenda?
What are your specific research and writing goals?
What are specific next steps you can take when you return from the conference?
What specific changes are you going to make to support your research and writing?
What do you envision as your support system?
Write or Die Having trouble writing? This site puts the "prod" in productivity.
Visit this website to check out results of a recent survey that inquired about writing and technology. Very intriguing. http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/research/writing_survey_2009.html
From the website:
Writing is an important issue in the UK today. While children’s and young people’s writing standards steadily improved until 2006, levels have not increased in recent years. Writing is much more than just an educational issue – it is an essential skill that allows people to participate fully in today’s society and to contribute to the economy.
Relatively little is known about young people’s views about writing in the UK. The key objectives of this survey were therefore: to explore how much young people enjoy writing, what type of writing they engage in, how good at writing they think they are, what they think about writing and what the role of technology is in young people's writing.
This report outlines the findings from 3001 pupils aged 9-16 from England and Scotland, who completed an online survey in May 2009. It explores gender and age differences, and examines the link between socio-economic background (in terms of free school meals) and writing. Furthermore, it explores young people's writing with respect to mobile phone ownership, having a blog and having a profile on a social networking site. It concludes with practical and policy implications.